ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,403, issued on July 29, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Tunnel-less SD-WAN" was invented by Alex Markuze (Rosh HaAyin, Israel), Chen Dar (Magshimim, Israel), Aran Bergman (Givatayim, Israel), Igor Golikov (Kfar Saba, Israel), Israel Cidon (San Francisco) and Eyal Zohar (Shimshit, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a novel tunnel-less SD-WAN, when an ingress node of the SD-WAN receives a new packet flow, it identifies the path of the flow through the SD-WAN, and sends an initial prepended set of SD-WAN header values before the first packet for the flow to the next hop along this identified path, rather than enca...